Re: WCAG-ISSUE-23 (DavidMacD): We should consider a new "Failure to provide role=presentation on a layout table"

On 2 June 2014 17:41, Hoffman, Allen <allen.hoffman@hq.dhs.gov> wrote:

> I just have trouble with this is a failure because “some” AT products
> might or might not support this at some point in time.


It is not a failure because certain AT products support or not support
something. Use table markup for layout is a misuse of HTML semantics as
table markup is for tabular data. That's how it is defined in HTML now and
has always been (AFAIK)

HTML Table element semantics are unambiguously conveyed via accessibility
APIs as data table semantics. <td> is short for 'table data cell'.


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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

Received on Monday, 2 June 2014 16:54:24 UTC